Howard Garis, one of the most prolific children's writers of the 20th century, is credited with writing over 1500 Uncle Wiggily stories, which originally appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. In this collection, we have 31 more charming bedtime stories in which the loveable old gentleman rabbit and his woodland friends entertain us. ( Lynne Thompson)

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At the end of the book, say (in addition): "End of Uncle Wiggily's Fortune, by Howard R. Garis. "

There should be about 5 seconds silence at the end of the recording.

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AFTER recordingNeed noise-cleaning?
Listen to your file through headphones. If you can hear some constant background noise (hiss/buzz), you may want to clean it up a bit. The new (free) version 1.3.3. of Audacity has much improved noise-cleaning. See this LibriVox wiki page for a complete guide. Save files as
128 kbps MP3
unclewiggilysfortune_##_garis_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. unclewiggilysfortune_01_garis_128kb.mp3)

Transfer of files (completed recordings) Please always post in this forum thread when you've sent a file. Also, post the length of the recording (file duration: mm:ss) together with the link.

Story 5 - Uncle Wiggily in a Boat" -
I heard two short sections with pretty severe buzz in the background. They are:
2:31-2:35 "there was no snow or ice now, as it was summer"
4:43-4:45 "if ever there's one to catch"
It's pretty jarring, and I think those phrases should be replaced. (Perhaps Lynnet can weigh in on this.)

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Story 6 - Uncle Wiggily at the Seashore" - PL OK

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Story 7 - Uncle Wiggily and the Lobster -
The silence at the beginning of the recording is approximately 1/3 second. Let me encourage you to make that closer to (but not exceeding) a full second in future recordings.

At 2:14-2:16 "but I didn't like to do it" - there is distortion just in this short phrase. I suspect you re-recorded this short chunk in another session and edited it in - I'm not sure why you got this electronic-sounding noise, and the buzzy sound in the two short parts of Story 5, when you didn't get it in the rest of your recording. The distortion in story 7 isn't severe enough to fail the story, so you get PL OK.

By the way, Checker reports the average volume of each of these three recordings is right in the middle of the LibriVox range (within 0.1 dB).